Personality in Words

     Words carry meaning through historically defined associations and connotations over time. Specific words may hold special meaning to an individual with emphasis on other suggested context. This understanding of various explanations can be applied to the words used or the actions displayed. I now bring up the question of my presence here. What initially encouraged me to begin this blog and analyze greater concepts of humanity in relation of understanding the present through examples and explanations of the past?

     Scientific discoveries fascinate me, and I am much inclined toward modern discoveries, especially in the arena of genetics. Progress is nothing unless compared to and improved from the past. This is where the foothold for the blog begins - I am fascinated by history because of the observations that can be drawn into the present to shape our world. Historical analogies are easily applied to the most specific instances of life today - if only to contrast the difference. Human nature does not, however, change as readily as assumed in the West, and large components of Greek, Roman, and other cultures convert very well into our understanding.
     Why write fiction then? To what point and purpose does non-didactic prose play its part? It is refreshing to read for the sake of reading. As a college student putting between sixty and eighty hours into my studies each week, the last thing I want to do in my free time is further educate my mind. Fiction is an easy and enjoyable way to allow the mind to strengthen different areas other than every day functionality. Fabricated worlds and unique scenarios transport us away from our modern misery. Certainly, this is true when one reads a story, but it is more apparent and fulfilling to stir up words into the shape of your own imagination. I have several fictional story lines floating in my head; each is but a single chapter of my ideas. I apologize that none of them will be written here. Most will probably never be written down at all because of time.
     Writing an aggregate between science, history, and sociology rationally stretches the mind as it searches for associations, connections, and links between two seemingly different areas. In conclusion then, writing achieves the same effect in the writer of both fiction and nonfiction: a natural expansion of the mind that strengthens the interrelations of life.
     Why am I here? For years I have expanded that mental connection internally and lost much progress in branching out from other areas. Once one of those theories or interpretations is physically, or in this case virtually, recorded, my mind is now liberated to shift focus and expand farther.

     Read, enjoy, appreciate, criticize, ignore, apply, retort, quip, or argue. Connections are always springing up where you least expect them, and each one carries a new perspective on that activity or object of the past that can instruct the future.


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Agatha Tyche